Apparatus for applying closures.



L. G. GANGELLIERI (EA. CABPEL'LETTI.

APPARATUS FOR APPLYING GLOSURES.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30. 1910.

Patented Jan. 19, 1915.

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APPARATUS FOR APPLYING GLOSURES. APPLICATION FILED DEG. 30, 1910.

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LIQNELLO GANUCCI CANOELLIERI AND ANCI-IISE CAPPELLETTI, OF FLORENCE,ITALY.

APPARATUS FOR APPLYING CLOSURES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 19, 1915.

Application filed December 30, 1910. Serial No. 600,173.

paratus for Applying Closures, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a system devised by the applicants with theobject of increasing the initial surface of metallic sheets and platesby submitting them to very great lateral strains of distention andtraction thereby distorting them on their turned up edge, or at the sametime cumulating the two effects v This invention is carried intopractice by means of a distorter of metallic sheets and plates, that isto say of apparatus which constitutes part of the invention forming thesubject of the present application.

The method of carrying out and commercially applying this fundamentalidea in its most complex form, that is to say when the distortingapparatus is mounted on a support capable of enabling the closing ofbottles, flasks, small vases, etc. to be effected with facility asillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a view inside elevation of the device mounted upon a support; Fig. 2 is a planview; F ig. 3 is a vertical sectional View thereof; Fig. 4 is a verticalsectional view of the device on an enlarged scale; Fig. 5 is a sectionalview taken on the line XY of Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional viewof the metallic sealing plate; Fig. 7 is a plan view thereof; Fig. 8 isa sec tional view showing the plate in position within the neck of abottle before expansion;

Fig. 9 is a sectional view illustrating the manner of removing the upperportion of the neck of the bottle in which the plate is secured, andFig. 10 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 8 showing the plateexpanded.

In these figures it will be seen that the distorting apparatus (which isrepresented separately and in detail in Figs. 4 and 5) is fixed by meansof two screws 4) to a frame 2',

which in turn is by means of two ears Z carried on two suitable supportsm, m. The frame terminates on its under side in a circular box 11. whichis free on its under side. The upper face 0 of the box is movablelongitudinally and slides in the box itself.

The spring 7) tends to keep the same raised; and a metallic wire t,which is fixed to the face 0 and terminates in a knob 'u, when drawnfrom the outside, will cause the face 0 to descend; it is with thisobject that the bottom face 9 of the box is provided with two openings ffor the emission of air when said movable face descends. So that whilethe frame 2' serves to support the distorter and maintain the samerigidly, the box a insures that a bottle or flask b, for example, afterit has been applied to the movable face 0 and placed in position, shallbe constantly held with force in contact with the lower part of thedistorter, provided that the spring 79 is of suflicient strength.

The distorter may be employed even without a support, and it isrepresented in vertical section in Fig. I and in horizontal section onthe line wg in Fig. 5. It is composed of a hand or fly wheel 0, in thecenter cl of which a shaft 6 of cylindrical form is situated, which inthe first place for about a third of its length is enlarged and providedwith a screw thread z, and is then continned in cylindrical form 1 ofmuch smaller section, and having a perfectly smooth surface. The screw 2engages an internally screw threaded sleeve 9, which projects downwardand in its lower part contains all the other parts which serve for theextension of the metallic plates, and which from the upper end downwardare situated in the following order: A circular Washer 71. with a screwthreaded edge 0" works in the screw thread of the sleeve, and has acentral bore 8 for permitting the passage of the thin shaft 1 of thehand or fly wheel; an open spiral spring M, which by exerting a pressure on another washer a", also of circular form and with a centralopening, but the edge of which is smooth and, consequently, mova le in avertical direction, compels the lowe'r'part of the 4 slides 1, 2, 3, and4- to remain united, such slides being situated beneath and leavingbetween them a central opening 5-, into which the axis 1 of the flywheel may be introduced, such opening being for the greater part of itslength cylindrical and'at the lower part conical.

By turning the fly wheel 0 from left to right, the screw 2 is advancedinto screw threaded sleeve g, and the axis y of the fly wheel descendsdownward into the central opening 5 left between the slides 1, 2, 3, and4. After its arrival there, seeing that such opening, becoming conical,narrows, it is caused to bear on the internal walls of the slides andcompels the latter to sepa ate one from the other, in spite of theopposition exerted by the spiral sprin If it is imagined that beforeimparting the initial movement to the fly wheel the lower parts of theslides have been caused to slide gently into a metallic circular plate 6provided with an edge 7 bent up at a right angle, similar to a box lidor a capsule as is illustrated, in vertical section in Fig. 6, and, inplan in Fig. 7 it will be readily understood that at the termination ofthe movement, said plate, in consequence of the action exerted by theslides, will be inevitably elongated on its flat surface and evendistorted at its edge, and that according to the form of the slides. Ifit is supposed, finally, that this action is exerted during the timethat the plate, or capsule has been previously inserted in the circulargroove 8 existing in the neck of a bottle, as is represented in Fig. 8,in which '9 is the space occupied by the stopper of cork, or glass, orby a drip counter, so that the edge of the plate, by being distorted, isforced into the circular groove 8, it is evident that this system ofdistention of metallic plates can be converted into a system of closingof general application and especially suitable for glass receptacles(such as bottles, flasks, jars','et c.) Finally, it is necessary topoint out that the slides instead of being 4: in number may be of anyother number,'and may have any suitable form tion of any form of plates,and that when the closed receptacles are of glass they may be readilyopened by breaking or removing by means of a slight blow that portion ofthe glass in which the metallic plate has become inclosed, as will beseen in Fig. 9, whileFig. 10 represents the closed receptacle before theremoval of the part 10 which inclos'es the metallic plate.

sire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In apparatus for expanding a metallic plate, in combination, a hollowcasing provided with an inwardly extending flange at its lower end, aplurality of members engaging said flange and adapted to rock thereon,means within said casing normally tending to rock said members in onedirec- Copies of this patent may be obtained for for the distention anddistore What we claim as our mvention, and de tion, and means forrocking said members in the opposite direction.

2. In apparatus for expanding a metallic plate, in combination, a hollowcasing provided with an inwardly extending flange at its lower end andprovided With an internal thread at its upper end, a plurality ofmembers engaging said flange and adapted to rock thereon, said membershaving portions extending in an upward direction within said casing,aiiat washer engaging the threaded portion of said casing, a washermovably positioned Within said casing and engaging the upwardly of saidmembers, a spring interposed between "said washers, whereby said memberswill normally be urged to rock in one direction, and means for rockingsaid members in the opposite direction. 7

3. In apparatus for expanding a metallic plate, in combination, a hollowcasing pro- 7 vided with an inwardly extending flange at its lower end,a plurality of extending members pivota'lly supported upon the inneredge of said flange and adapted to rock with respect thereto, saidmembers having downwardly extending normallyv converging arms, and/meansfor rocking said members about their pivotal points of support to causesaid arms to move .outward. f V '4. In apparatus for expanding ametallic plate, in combination, aholl'ow casing pro vided with aninwardly extending flange at its lower end, a plurality of extendingmembers piv'otally sup portecl upon the inner edge of said fiangean'dadapted to rock with respect thereto, said Ir'iembers being providedwith downwardly "extending converging arms and with upwardly extendingdiverging armspmeans engaging said diverging arms normally tending torock said mem bers about their pivots in onezdirection and meansengaging said converging arms 2 adapted to rock said members about theirpivots in opposite direction.

In testimony whereof we have signed our extending portions 7 names tothis specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

martin eiruoereareritmria. a. ANCHISE CAPPELLETtPI. [L- 8-] WitnessesCHARLES L. BoLoeNnN, Mom-yr Mannie.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

